Victoria Summerley

Victoria Summerley is an award-winning journalist and author. She is a former executive editor of The Independent and has also held senior positions on the Evening Standard and The Observer. A keen gardener, she opens her own garden for charity under the National Garden Scheme.

She quit Fleet Street (and London) in 2012 to live in the Cotswolds, and has since written three books: Secret Gardens of the Cotswolds, Great Gardens of London, and The Secret Gardeners, all published by Frances Lincoln.

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“Every session I attended was excellent and all probably in different ways. The standard was extremely high I thought – even though I had thought last year’s Festival could not be bettered for me!”
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“Ruth Rosen’s talk was magical in every sense. Her reading of Keats poetry and letters certainly provided the ‘escapism’ from the realities of daily life as underlined by the Programme Director, Anthea Parker, in her Foreword to the Isle of Wight Literary Festival programme.”
Sue Hicks

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